LEADER 04619nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910345150203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-15814-7 010 $a9786612158148 010 $a1-4008-2660-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400826605 035 $a(CKB)1000000000788484 035 $a(EBL)457884 035 $a(OCoLC)438753625 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000189918 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11156686 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000189918 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10166219 035 $a(PQKB)11035668 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse43017 035 $a(DE-B1597)453547 035 $a(OCoLC)979578516 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400826605 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL457884 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10312588 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL215814 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC457884 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000788484 100 $a20040303d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLaw without nations? $ewhy constitutional government requires sovereign states /$fJeremy A. Rabkin 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, NJ $cPrinceton University Press$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (358 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-09530-2 311 $a0-691-13055-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tCHAPTER ONE. Introduction: By Our Own Lights -- $tCHAPTER TWO. Global Governance or Constitutional Government? -- $tCHAPTER THREE. The Constitutional Logic of Sovereignty -- $tCHAPTER FOUR. The Enlightenment and the Law of Nations -- $tCHAPTER FIVE. Diplomacy of Independence -- $tCHAPTER SIX. A World Safe for Eurogovernance -- $tCHAPTER SEVEN. The Human Rights Crusade -- $tCHAPTER EIGHT. Is Sovereignty Traded in Trade Agreements? -- $tCHAPTER NINE. American Independence and the Opinions of Mankind -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aWhat authority does international law really have for the United States? When and to what extent should the United States participate in the international legal system? This forcefully argued book by legal scholar Jeremy Rabkin provides an insightful new look at this important and much-debated question. Americans have long asked whether the United States should join forces with institutions such as the International Criminal Court and sign on to agreements like the Kyoto Protocol. Rabkin argues that the value of international agreements in such circumstances must be weighed against the threat they pose to liberties protected by strong national authority and institutions. He maintains that the protection of these liberties could be fatally weakened if we go too far in ceding authority to international institutions that might not be zealous in protecting the rights Americans deem important. Similarly, any cessation of authority might leave Americans far less attached to the resulting hybrid legal system than they now are to laws they can regard as their own. Law without Nations? traces the traditional American wariness of international law to the basic principles of American thought and the broader traditions of liberal political thought on which the American Founders drew: only a sovereign state can make and enforce law in a reliable way, so only a sovereign state can reliably protect the rights of its citizens. It then contrasts the American experience with that of the European Union, showing the difficulties that can arise from efforts to merge national legal systems with supranational schemes. In practice, international human rights law generates a cloud of rhetoric that does little to secure human rights, and in fact, is at odds with American principles, Rabkin concludes. A challenging and important contribution to the current debates about the meaning of multilateralism and international law, Law without Nations? will appeal to a broad cross-section of scholars in both the legal and political science arenas. 606 $aSovereignty 606 $aConstitutional law 606 $aGlobalization 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zEurope 607 $aEurope$xForeign relations$zUnited States 615 0$aSovereignty. 615 0$aConstitutional law. 615 0$aGlobalization. 676 $a341.26 700 $aRabkin$b Jeremy A$0600937 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910345150203321 996 $aLaw without nations$92476005 997 $aUNINA